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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the favorite singers among Eva's parent's friends in Canada?
(a) Perry Como.
(b) Bing Crosby.
(c) Andrews Sisters and Dinah Shore.
(d) Nat King Cole.

2. Vancouver's Board of Commerce claimed that Vancouver was the most beautiful city in the world after what city?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Rio de Janeiro.

3. How did Mr. Ostropov show what he meant by "life?"
(a) Mozart's music.
(b) Czerny exercises for the piano.
(c) Bach exercises.
(d) Scales.

4. Where was the photograph taken about a year after the Wydra's arrived in Canada?
(a) In front of a museum.
(b) In the mountains.
(c) In the back yard of their home.
(d) By the ocean.

5. What did the teacher in Vancouver decide to call Alina because she could not pronounce her name?
(a) Kitty.
(b) Ali.
(c) Ann.
(d) Elaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why couldn't Eva hear herself on the radio when she was interviewed at 14 years old?

2. What theater troupe came to Vancouver to perform Macbeth?

3. When Eva went out with her new friends in Canada, what was the boy wearing who teased Eva and called her a "foreign student?"

4. What did Mrs. Steiner disapprove of that Eva's father did?

5. What kind of food did the Wydra's have in their luggage from their trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Eva a "pretend teenager?"

2. How did Canada's work ethic affect Eva's father and his view of himself?

3. How were Eva's views of communism different from her classmates?

4. Shortly after the Wydra's arrived in Canada, Eva had a bad dream. What was it and why was it significant?

5. When did Eva realize that discussing communism with her classmates was a waste of time?

6. In Eva's attempt at secrecy, what role did Mrs. Steiner play? Why did Eva place her is this position? What characteristics did Mrs. Steiner have that made Eva behave differently towards her?

7. Why did Eva choose English as the language she would write in when she received her new diary?

8. Why did Eva's father struggle so much once the family was living in Canada?

9. When Eva and her family arrived in Canada, how did Eva view the two parts of her life?

10. What did Eva mean when she claimed to have "no interior language?"

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